Amanda L. Patten
List of John Benjamins publications for which Amanda L. Patten plays a role.
2019 Towards an English Constructicon using patterns and frames Constructions in Applied Linguistics, Hunston, Susan and Florent Perek (eds.), pp. 354–384 | Article
Recent research in construction grammar has been marked by increasing efforts to create constructicons: detailed inventories of form-meaning pairs to describe the grammar of a given language, following the principles of construction grammar. This paper describes proposals for building a new… read more
2014 The historical development of the it-cleft: A comparison of two different approaches Theory and Data in Cognitive Linguistics, Gisborne, Nikolas and Willem B. Hollmann (eds.), pp. 87–114 | Article
This chapter compares two approaches to a particular grammatical change. While Ball (1991, 1994) investigates the development of the it-cleft configuration from within the generative tradition of the 1990s, I have recently re-examined the historical it-cleft data from a constructional perspective… read more
2012 The historical development of the it-cleft: A comparison of two different approaches Theory and data in cognitive linguistics, Gisborne, Nikolas and Willem B. Hollmann (eds.), pp. 548–575 | Article
This paper compares two approaches to a particular grammatical change. While Ball (1991, 1994) investigates the development of the it-cleft configuration from within the generative tradition of the 1990s, I have recently re-examined the historical it-cleft data from a constructional perspective… read more
2010 Grammaticalization and the it-cleft construction Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Graeme Trousdale (eds.), pp. 221–243 | Article
This paper reexamines the development of the it-cleft construction from the perspective of grammaticalization theory. In a previous study, Ball (1991, 1994) finds that the it-cleft was initially restricted to NP foci, with the relative clause expressing presupposed information that is already known… read more